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Quotes About Meditative

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
~ David Levithan
We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.
~ Jim James
every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
~ Herman Melville
A partir de cierta edad, un trayecto por la ciudad se vuelve ingratamente meditabundo. Las direcciones de los muertos se amontonan.
~ Ian Mcewan
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.
~ W. P. Kinsella
A faint frown wrinkled his broad forehead.
~ Steven Erikson
It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
~ Ella Henderson
relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.
~ Charlaine Harris
People think I'm laid back, but there's a lot going on in my head.
~ David Seaman
kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.
~ Thomas Merton
Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life.
~ Rob Manuel
I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
~ J. C. Chandor
I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I'm ironing.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.
~ Joe Biden
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
~ Jim Jarmusch
Theta waves are associated with drowsy, meditative, or sleeping states. Yet in psychopaths, they occur during normal waking states, even sometimes during states of increased arousal.
~ Kevin Dutton
He has the gift of quiet.
~ John le Carre
This meditative awareness, I've found, can bring us a remarkably subtle understanding of our emotional patterns and so help us find ways to unravel deep fixations and destructive habits.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
I'm a spiritual person.
~ Katharine McPhee
I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.
~ Michael Pollan
Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.
~ Catherine Newman
Knitting is the saving of life.
~ Virginia Woolf
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
~ Ariel Gore